I don’t care what you may think about the topic. At this point there’s only the issue of choice.
If it’s a problem for people to trust you, then, make a poll first, and ask people if they’d like to also donate via crypto as an additional option.
Of course you would only accept stablecoins because their value are tied to real world currencies.
And Tether is the most popular stablecoin so far. 1 Tether = 1 US dollar, forever. I don’t know the equivalent in Euro, if it exists.
But please, consider this option for donations in the future.
Thank you.
I don’t think you’ll see such things in the (near?) future of Krita. The statements from the Krita Foundation regarding this are very clear in my eyes.
@novames00 Ok, I’ll put my opinion about cryptos in my pocket ( ) just the time to focus here on answering you in a practical way, because donations are important for maintaining the work of developers at Krita.
The Krita Foundation is (like KDE eV. organization and many) not legally allowed to hold cryptocurrencies.
It’s something normal for tax management and regulation in the EU. Official banks of Netherlands would need to publish a monthly official conversion rate, it would require regulation and we are still far from that.
So to accept a crypto donation, someone managing the finance at Krita Foundation would need to immediately convert to EUR in any case. That’s why you’ll want to spare them the time to:
Create a new wallet in your fav cryptocoin (in their own name, not in the Foundation’s name)
Share their personal crypto wallet recipient ID just for you
Receive the amount
Learn a service to convert the cryptocoin to EUR
Transit the money on their own bank account (and pay tax on it)
Transfer the EUR to Krita foundation.
It’s just too much time spent doing actions and learning a lot of new things. It would also require them to contribute in way in the culture of crypto. And it became very toxic nowadays. It’s now a well-known nest to scams, speculators and stealers as you can read daily on the news of https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ . The period where the Bitcoin − before and around 2010 − was “geeky” is over. The crypto ecosystem became also a nest to many actors of the denial of climate change after the world took conscious the farms of computers necessary to mine cryptos were very polluting. That’s why you’ll not find easily someone wanting to dip a toe in this culture in the Free/Libre and Open Source software communities. I don’t argue it can’t be done; just it has to be an exceptionally big donation to be worth the custom setup and overcome the of what crypto has become.
That’s why your best solution to help is to convert any type of coins on your side to EUR upfront and then send a bank transfer to Krita Foundation (see the donation page for the Bank ID). I guess some services of crypto exchange might even directly accept you enter the IBAN of the Foundation during the process so you don’t have to transit the money on your own bank account.
) just the time to focus here on answering you in a practical way, because donations are important for maintaining the work of developers at Krita.
of what crypto has become.